Changes

=== Interdisciplinary projects and mentoring ===

In the Twente region, hundreds of startups are found by UT students, built around outstanding ideas and mindsets. With Novel-T, Incubase, and similar resources, the University of Twente supports founders and innovators throughout the whole process of starting and scaling their business. But every beginning is difficult and so innovators oftentimes struggle organizing their dream team to realize their amazing ideas. <br/>

Therefore, it is our goal to create an environment that enables and encourages students to offer their expertise and look for like-minded business partners. Additionally, we want to simplify getting in touch with experts for short questions and guidelines on projects. Thus, we strive to include professionals as well as alumni from the University to offer their support to young dreamers.

While we are focussing on the students and their projects, we also want to add value for the University and municipality. Therefore, we want to offer these stakeholders to advertise interesting projects for students to work on. This also allows students aiming to gain working experience to engage in regional projects and improve their environment.

=== Mental health and student wellbeing ===

As a topic, this is broad, multifaceted, and seems to be a recurring issue the students want to be addressed. However, there is significant difficulty in identifying exactly where the problem lies. The UT offers quite a significant amount of supposed help, different people to go to depending on what the issue is, they claim to want to stay informed on how students are doing, and yet students continue to struggle and lack visible change. Tackling this problem as a whole would be a very time consuming and challenging task.

Whilst there is potential for the future, we found a more introductory issue to address would be abstracting it to a potential root of the problem. Working under the understanding that stress in students originates amongst other things from university and the questions one may ask themselves at this point in life, we hope to create a tool that allows students to set themselves apart with this in a healthy way, ideally preventing or postponing the point at which it gets difficult enough to request external help.

The key lies in bringing out many small options and being able to quickly modify them, restricting the time and cost each effort takes and hoping to maximize the number of students helped. To do this we will remain in close contact with the three stakeholder groups of ‘experts’, students, and research.